Masanori Hanada has been giving talks on two continents this month. On Sept 15 and 16, he gave two live lectures on “Matrix models” at a summer school on quantum computing and tensor networks held at Yukawa Institute of Theoretical Physics. Matrix models are important in the dual description of superstring theory and M-theory. Masanori introduced a formulation of the matrix models which can be used for simulations on quantum devices, and used such a formulation to solve a few decade-old problems. On Tuesday 20 September, Masanori gave a virtual talk on “Flux tube and chiral symmetry breaking in the partially-deconfined phase of Yang-Mills theory” at the Workshop on Noncommutative and generalized geometry in string theory, gauge theory and related physical models in Corfu, Greece (workshop website here). The latter talk is based on collaboration with students (paper 1 here, paper 2 here). The image below shows the EISA, sponsor of Corfu2022, homepage.